Matt Vickerman

Matt Vickerman is Sales & Business Development Professional, Liquidity Specialist, with a focus on FX & Derivatives. He lives in suburban NJ and when not working enjoys road cycling and spending time with his family.

Matt Vickerman's Bio:

matt.vickerman@gmail.com

312-513-0903

Matt Vickerman is a sales and business development professional with extensive experience working with listed and OTC financial products. He is well versed in electronic trading systems. Versatile background in bank, ECN, and proprietary trading settings.

A graduate from the University of Illinois, Matt Vickerman focused his studies on agricultural markets and the financial instruments used to manage risk in this sector. This included analysis of hedging techniques and risk mitigation strategies in the commodity markets. This involved analysis of both listed instruments in futures and options markets, as well as OTC products available to this sector. Matt Vickerman was a Research Assistant at the Office for Futures and Options Research within the college of Agricultural and Consumer Economics.

Matt Vickerman's career has focused on sales and business development activities related to financial markets, with a specialization in foreign exchange and fixed income markets. Matt began his career at a large OTC clearing operation at RBS Global Markets. In this role he handled credit inter mediation and client support for access to FX, interest rate derivative products, and exotic or structured OTC products.

After working at RBS Global Markets, Matt Vickerman was recruited to Sun Trading as Business Analyst working to on board new liquidity to a growing and successful proprietary platform. The mandate was to aggressively expand access across several asset classes including global equities, global futures, OTC bonds markets, and options. After two years with the firm Matt was promoted to Director of Business Development with a broad mandate to manage and grow liquidity relationships with exchanges, ECN's, banks, and brokerages. Through this role Matt was a significant contributor to firm top-line revenue.

Matt was also Co-Founder and was Managing Partner of Olmec Foods, a health food company dedicated to delivering high quality chia seeds directly from their ancestral lands in Jalisco, Mexco. In this role he handled every aspect of the company startup including incorporation, accounting, equity financing, sales, business development, and operations. Matt exiting the company in 2016, selling his shares to the remaining partners.

After nearly eight years with Sun Trading, Matt Vickerman was hired as Director, FX Sales for BATS Global Markets in New York.

Director of Business Development at Sun Trading LLC

April 2011 - December 2016 | Chicago, IL

Managed all business development activities for FX, Futures, and fixed income teams. Generated revenue by seeking out new counterparties and liquidity sources. This
includes banks, ECN’s, exchanges, institutional brokers, retail brokers, and CTA’s. Responsible for substantial portion of new team revenue during tenure of role. Product development and sales manager for direct streaming API ‘Sun FX’. Maintained revenue associated with existing relationships by monitoring order flow quality metrics and actively managing counterparty segmentation. Generated new strategy ideas and work with team to improve existing ones.

Founder & Managing Partner at Olmec Foods

April 2013 - July 2016 | Chicago, IL

Founded a company dedicated to retail and wholesale distribution of chia seeds to US and European markets. Handled every aspect of the company startup including incorporation, accounting, equity financing, sales, business development, and operations. Implemented multifaceted marketing plan for introduction of new brand. Secured significant retail and wholesale distribution channels for successful product launch.

Founder & Managing Partner at Olmec Foods

February 2013 - June 2016 | Chicago, IL

Founded a company dedicated to retail and wholesale distribution of chia seeds to US and European markets.
Managed every aspect of company startup including incorporation, equity financing, accounting, sales, business development, and operations.
Implemented multifaceted marketing plan for introduction of new brand; secured significant retail and wholesale distribution channels for successful product launch.

Business Analyst at Sun Trading LLC

June 2009 - April 2011 | Chicago, IL

Supervised on boarding of all new exchanges and trading venues firm wide. Pursued and executed new business opportunities for all asset classes including global
equities, futures, options, FX, and fixed income. Researched trading opportunities in new products and geographies.

Intern- FX spot desk at ABN AMRO

Supported traders by managing order books and keeping track of delta positions.
Collaborated with technology teams to troubleshoot and improve trading platform.

Matt Vickerman's Education:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2002 – 2006

Concentration: Agribusiness, Markets & Management

Activities: Matt Vickerman was a research assistant at The Office for Futures and Options Research (OFOR), which is a leading organization for academic research and learning of futures, options, and derivative markets. OFOR seeks faculty scholars and highly qualified students interested in research and learning of futures and options markets by providing opportunities for the dissemination of information through many written and verbal outlets, classroom instruction, and various education programs (http://ofor.ace.illinois.edu/).
He was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and also involved in various academic organizations on campus.